Cigarettes Are Sublime /
Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good. With its origins in the author's urgent desire to stop smoking, Cigarettes Are Sublime offers a provocative look at the literary, philosophical, and cultural history of smoking. Richard Klein focuses on the dark beauty, negative pleasure...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[1993]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I : What is a cigarette?
- 2 : Cigarettes are sublime
- 3 : Zeno's paradox
- 4 : The devil in Carmen
- 5 : The soldier's friend
- 6 : "L'air du temps"
- A polemical conclusion
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index